“He wouldn’t be threatening Selena Gomez with predator drones”

President Obama’s daughters are just thirteen and ten, but the guy just can’t stop talking about the possibility they’ll be romantically inclined someday, and about how much that fact freaks him out.

Just yesterday, when he was visiting the Master Lock factory in Wisconsin, Obama joked that the company’s industrial “super locks” might “come in handy” for him as “the father of two girls who are soon to be in high school.” For now, he added, he’s “counting on the fact that when they go to school there are men with guns with them.”

I know a boy named David. When you yell at him, he doesn't look you in the eyes and he shrugs his shoulders. It used to render me speechless with frustration. It wasn’t until I was on the other end of an arbitrary order that I realized what my students must really feel.